Q is for Quail
The British population is small, and rather ephemeral. Quail being our only migrant gamebird, numbers fluctuate hugely from year to year and depend strongly on conditions further south.
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Driven Grouse Shooting - Implications for Upland Birds
The subject of driven grouse shooting is a controversial one. In current times the shooting fraternity finds itself besieged with calls for an all out ban on driven grouse shooting and barely a day passes with the topic not broached on social media.
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Wanted – Dead or Alive
The leading country in the online trade is China, where 18,590 animal products were found on sale, nearly 78% of which were ivory products.
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Elephants vs Humans: Solving the Conflict
Elephants can raid crops, damage water supplies, demolish homes and grain stores, and even kill or injure people and their livestock. People often retaliate in an effort to protect themselves and their livelihoods, by resorting to extreme measure such as poisoning and shooting elephants.
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Southern Sea Otter Survival
As southern sea otter population recover from near extinction due to hunting for the fur trade, they are still suffering from low genetic diversity. A new study examines the most effective way to save them.
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Lizards Feel the Heat of Climate Change
Study recommends that future research should focus on the availability of shade habitat and the energetic consequences of the behavioural changes that climate change may cause in the species.
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